When Ubisoft set about making the Assassin's Creed series, they realised that their Assassin heroes needed an iconic weapon, perfectly created to suit the needs of the stealth favouring Assassins. The Hidden Blade is a fairly simple concept - basically, it's a blade hidden up a sleeve - but it's beautifully effective and you could argue that Assassin's Creed simply wouldn't be possible without it. The Hidden Blade is the ideal tool for quick, stealthy assassinations and it will be your most used weapon in any Assassin's Creed playthrough. There's something extremely satisfying about approaching an enemy from behind, plunging the Hidden Blade into their neck unseen and walking away, moments before they collapse to the ground. It encourages strategy too: timing your movements to remain unseen, judging the distance between enemies, calculating if you have chance to kill one guy before his buddy turns around... It's a really well done concept. Having featured prevalently in every Assassin's Creed game, the Hidden Blade has quickly become one of modern gaming's most recognisable weapons. A quick Google search will lead you to hundreds of pages of people seeking to create their own real-life model; it seems the modern day Brotherhood of Assassins are a lot less cautious than their historical counterparts.
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